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I would be most happy if Apple and/or AMD can offer a solid alternative to nVidia based solutions... but when?

Cheers - #19

Apple I don't know.

Part of AMD's affordable solutions (8k.R3D 5:1 +24 fps in real-time) will be announced at CES 2019 (and released around march 2019) and it will not only accelarate .R3D, but everything you throw at it.
The second part of the affordable solutions (8k.R3D 5:1 +48 fps in real-time) will be release around august 2019.

And for the bigger budget's (Like Phil Holland's workstation) they have EPYC "Rome" with it's massive amounts of PCIe-lanes.

I would be most happy if Apple and/or AMD can offer a solid alternative to nVidia based solutions... but when?

Cheers - #19

I think at this point, though nothing is firm, Apple will likely jump back into supporting Nvidia products likely around Q2/Q3 2019. Their upcoming Pro is going to be something a bit different and we'll have to wait and see what develops there.

I would imagine the target user for the 2019 mMacPro would be highly likely to want fast performance in apps that rely on CUDA for accelerated processing. Not sure what Apple would have to do to get back in business with nVidia, but if they could...

I think at this point, though nothing is firm, Apple will likely jump back into supporting Nvidia products likely around Q2/Q3 2019. Their upcoming Pro is going to be something a bit different and we'll have to wait and see what develops there.

I really want this to be true. I was looking at eGPUs (AKA, only AMD cards) for macOS today and was not impressed by the marginal performance gains. Hopefully Jarred's plea to Apple during the presentation sent that message home.

Which of these do you guys think would yield the best performance on a system with an Intel 6700K? They’re all pretty similar in price, but I’m trying to do some research, but specifically for editing 6-8K footage. Right now, my system barely handles 8K. Short of starting over on a new build:

Quadro RTX 5000
$2300
3072 Cuda Cores
16GB

Titan RTX
$2499
4608 Cuda Cores
24GB

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti x2
$2600
4352 Cuda Cores each
11GB

I’m completely unsure of how the resources on a dual card setup are used. So, I’m looking to you guys for help. Thanks!

Which of these do you guys think would yield the best performance on a system with an Intel 6700K? They’re all pretty similar in price, but I’m trying to do some research, but specifically for editing 6-8K footage. Right now, my system barely handles 8K. Short of starting over on a new build:

Remember that everything is still in Beta stage, when everything goes according to plan (that I know of) NAB 2019 will be a good time for official release.

Originally Posted by RJ_Ortiz

Quadro RTX 5000
$2300
3072 Cuda Cores
16GB

About perfect for 6k and bare minimum for 8k (memory wise) but don't expect full-res premium decode in real-time.

Originally Posted by RJ_Ortiz

Titan RTX
$2499
4608 Cuda Cores
24GB

Looks to be around the sweet spot for realtime 8k editing in realtime.

Originally Posted by RJ_Ortiz

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti x2
$2600
4352 Cuda Cores each
11GB

Fastest, but will run out of memory fast with 8k when doing effects like noise reduction.

Originally Posted by RJ_Ortiz

I’m completely unsure of how the resources on a dual card setup are used. So, I’m looking to you guys for help. Thanks!